Christian, husband, father of 12, elder, teacher, author, speaker - Publisher-Greenleaf Press & Director-Francis Schaeffer Study Center
Lebanon, Tennessee
Joined December 2008
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🚨TILLIS: "Are you a conspiracy theorist?"
RFK JR: "That is a pejorative that is applied to me mainly to keep me from asking difficult questions.
I was told that I was a conspiracy theorist for saying that COVID vaccines wouldn't prevent transmission, now they admit it.
I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said red dye causes cancer, now the FDA acknowledges it.
I was called a conspiracy theorist because I said fluoride lowers IQ, now they have published a study showing a inverse correlation.
I can go on for a week."
Rob Shearer retweeted
🚨WOW!!!
An Ohio principal LOST HIS JOB after refusing to abandon a homeless 16-year-old student who was sleeping in a CAR.
He and his wife already had SIX KIDS… but they took him in anyway.
When the boy offered to LEAVE so the principal could save his career, he refused. ❤️
His name is Rob Burnside. He had spent 31 YEARS in education and was the principal of Lakota East High School outside Cincinnati.
The boy’s name is Landerius “DeDe” Hayes.
During DeDe’s junior year, his home life fell apart.
He says living with his mother wasn’t safe, his father was dealing with problems of his own, and there were nights when DeDe was sleeping in a car with the heater running because the mobile home where his father was staying was too cold.
...and yet, every morning, he kept showing up to school.
Eventually the school learned DeDe’s mother had moved outside the district. Without a qualifying address, DeDe was withdrawn from Lakota East.
That’s when Principal Burnside realized this wasn’t just an enrollment problem.
This kid didn’t have a freaking HOME.
Rob went home and told his wife, Angel, what was happening. Her response was basically: if he needs somewhere to live, he can live with us.
Rob and Angel already had SIX CHILDREN, including two they had adopted, but there was a 16-year-old boy out there without a stable place to sleep, and they couldn’t ignore it.
The couple prayed about whether they should take DeDe in. Rob has said that just minutes later, his phone buzzed.
It was DeDe.
“Hey, Mr. Burnside.”
Rob looked at his wife and knew they had their answer.
DeDe moved in with the Burnsides and suddenly had something he desperately needed: a warm house, food, stability and people who were going to show up for him.
While DeDe’s custody and residency situation was being worked out, Burnside allowed him to continue attending classes even though he’d already been withdrawn.
The district investigated Burnside for insubordination and raised concerns about enrollment, lunches and liability.
He was eventually placed on administrative leave.
After 31 YEARS in education, Rob says he was given a choice: step down or go through the termination process.
The 16 year old, DeDe, realized Rob’s career was on the line and offered to LEAVE THEIR HOME so Burnside could keep his job.
Rob wouldn’t allow it.
He hugged DeDe and told him: "You’re part of this family. We’re not gonna turn our back on you.”
So Burnside stepped away from the career he’d spent three decades building... and DeDe stayed.
The Burnsides eventually became his legal family. DeDe started calling Rob and Angel “Pops and Ma.”
Then this past May, Rob Burnside sat in the stands at DeDe’s high school graduation.
Not as the principal, just sitting there as a dad, watching the kid he refused to abandon walk across the stage.
DeDe is 18 now and is pursuing a career in aviation mechanics.
When asked he regretted what happened, Rob simple said:
“What value can we put on the life of a young person?”
When Rob Burnside had to choose between protecting that career and protecting a homeless kid who needed somebody…
He chose the kid.
And when that kid offered to sacrifice his own home to repay him…
Rob chose him AGAIN.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Rob Shearer retweeted
Look at the posture of the two men in this photograph, taken in Tokyo on September 27, 1945.
Twenty-five days earlier, World War II had ended. Across Allied capitals, politicians and newspapers were demanding that Emperor Hirohito be indicted as a war criminal and hanged.
When the Emperor asked to visit the U.S. Embassy in person, General Douglas MacArthur stood in an unbuttoned khaki shirt with no tie, hands on his hips. As MacArthur later confessed in his memoirs, he braced himself for an awkward plea: throughout history, conquered rulers almost always blamed their advisors and begged to save their own necks.
Everyone left the room except the Emperor's interpreter. MacArthur offered him an American cigarette and noticed the Emperor's hands trembling slightly as he lit it.
Then came the words MacArthur never forgot.
In his autobiography Reminiscences, MacArthur wrote that the Emperor told him he had come to offer himself to the judgment of the powers MacArthur represented, as the one to bear sole responsibility for every political and military decision made and action taken by his people in the conduct of the war.
MacArthur wrote that a tremendous impression swept over him, chilling the marrow of his bones. Standing before him was a man willing to lay his own life on the chopping block so his starving, bombed-out nation would not be torn apart.
In that single thirty-five-minute meeting, the Supreme Commander decided no trial would touch him. When their talk ended, breaking his own initial protocol, MacArthur personally escorted the Emperor out to his car.
Two fierce enemies walked into that room in 1945. Eighty years of peace across the Pacific walked out.
Rob Shearer retweeted
More of this 🇺🇸
American ambition at full throttle. 🇺🇸
An incredible first day of MAX POWER at @NASAKennedy with @airdotshow, and we’re not done yet. This is just a taste of what’s ahead with @capeweek_us.
More power. More inspiration. Let’s go!
Rob Shearer retweeted
For 70 years, every rocket that reached orbit left part of itself behind.
Burned up in the sky. Sunk in the ocean. Gone forever.
This Friday, SpaceX tries to end that.
Flight 15 will attempt to catch BOTH stages of Starship with the tower's giant arms. First the Super Heavy booster. Then the Ship itself, falling back from space after reentry.
The booster has been caught before. The Ship never has.
If both work, it will be the first time every piece of an orbital rocket comes home intact.
Friday, November 13. Pending FAA approval.
Don't miss this one. 🚀
Oh wow. Its Daylight Wasting Time again.
Now, there's an extra hour of sunlight before I wake up. And its dark before I finish work.
yay.
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GREAT news! This from my email alerts from the Nashville Banner (they don't do Twitter/X). A LOOOOONNNNG time in coming. This is sweet. Beverly Briley's descriptor of "40 jealous whores" will have to be amended. 😂🤣😂 nashvillebanner.com/2026/11/…
Rob Shearer retweeted
Victor Davis Hanson with the uncomfortable truth 🔥
“They ethnically cleansed almost a million Jews from Arab countries between 1948–1973.
No one talks about that.
But only the Palestinians still claim ‘refugee’ status 78 years later.
When Poland was recreated, 12 million Germans walked back to Germany. Two million died.
You don’t see Germans today waving keys to apartments in Danzig screaming ‘I’m a refugee.’
Cypriots lost 40% of their land to Turkey.
Jews from Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad, the Gulf — kicked out, property stolen.
None of them still play the eternal refugee card.
Israel left Gaza in 2005 with hundreds of millions in greenhouses and infrastructure.
What did they do? Looted it.
Took $40–50 billion in aid… and built rockets and 500 miles of tunnels instead of a real state.
We’re supposed to feel sorry for people who chose this path?”
History is not a buffet. You don’t get to pick only the victimhood that serves you. 🇮🇱
Rob Shearer retweeted
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses in English.
Still relevant and true today.
Have you read it?
Rob Shearer retweeted
My son will graduate from a classical Christian education school this year before college. At the end of this year, he'll have to stand up before the faculty and argue his senior thesis, which will be centered around the argument that the further art and architecture have secularized in post modernism, the less objectively uplifting they are, based in part on arguments from Thomas Aquinas. He'll have to not only make his case, but will have to defend his arguments from a faculty that will argue back. His older sister went through the same and is now one of the few kids in her college class who can hold her own in class in debates with professors and has been offered more unique internship opportunities than her peers as a result. Classical education schools are where the future employers of America will come from as more and more public schools teach kids they are victims and indoctrinate instead of educate. cc: @JeremyTate41
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
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See you all soon in Lincoln, NE at @ChrisStapleton @aaroadshow Show TONIGHT, 10.26.26!
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60 years of the CMA Awards calls for a celebration! On November 8, we’re taking a trip back to the years when “Country Music’s Biggest Night” called the Grand Ole Opry stage home, hosted by 18-time CMA Award-winner Vince Gill and featuring performances from 8-time CMA Award-winner Ricky Skaggs, Deana Carter, Jamey Johnson, Lorrie Morgan, and more. Join us for a special night at the Grand Ole Opry! Photos courtesy of @CountryMusic
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Here are two magical performances of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder backed by @OrchestraKy at @TheSKyPAC this past Saturday night! Enjoy "Crossing the Briney" and "Road to Spencer!"
video credit: MJ Porter
